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单词 bossship
释义 boss-ship, bossship orig. U.S.|ˈbɒsʃɪp|
[f. boss n.6 + -ship.]
The rule or position of a boss or bosses, esp. in politics.
1882Nation 2 Nov. 371/3 To enable Mahone to build up a new..boss-ship in Virginia.1889‘Mark Twain’ Conn. Yankee xiii. 160 The thing that would have best suited..my nature would have been to resign the Boss-ship and get up an insurrection.1894Voice (N.Y.) 6 Sept., It was thought to be an auspicious time to shake off the ‘bossship’ exercised by Mr. Platt for many years.1928D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatt. xiii. 217 ‘But who is boss of the show?’ she asked. ‘The men who own and run the industries’... ‘They don't take their boss-ship seriously enough,’ she said.
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